The Shim (part 6)
He had even looked forward to it. Not everyone in his riding school had the opportunity to go to boarding school.
Also within the family he was the only one to share this fate. So there was a responsibility on his shoulders, he thought, to do his best. If he was already nervous, he would not have shown anything about it. knew nothing about ships or skippers' children at all, so he decided to give his eyes and ears a good living. Until now, this had not been too much. The boys came from very different regions in the country, or could you call it that. Most of them didn't talk much about home, probably also because they would get homesick.
The older boys, who had been at boarding school for a long time, left them to the left, except if they were by the teacher. He had to do tasks together and in the introduction week there had been more contact. Now he, with his classmates, belonged to the rookies, you obviously did not deal with that. So he should look for his friends among these guys and there were not so many on the Singel.
